Dark orse Author:Fletcher Knebel Three Weeks before election day, a Presidential candidate dies.....In a hastily called party conclave, Eddie Quinn is named to take his place. Eddie who? Eddie Quinn an obscure highway official from New Jersey, whose chief pleasures are cars, bowling, and women---a man who will lose the election gracefully. — But Eddie Quinn has other ideas. W... more »hile his powerful backers look on aghast, he goes to the American people with a message of honesty, decency and common sense unprecedented in American politics. And so the fight is on --- Eddie Quinn versus the power brokers of America -- right down to the heart-stopping election-night photo finish.« less